Description
Four Scenes From Laughing Tonalities is a performance born from the encounter between the vibrating body of Veronica Vetrila and the sound composition of Stephané Borrel, an experimental composer active in the Parisian scene.
The work explores the relationship between movement and sound through four distinct scenes, four embodied soundscapes that investigate the tones of laughter—not as an expression of joy, but as a physical phenomenon, a vibration, a spasm, a pause in breathing. Laughter here becomes an ambiguous territory: it can be liberating or convulsive, collective or solitary, authentic or mechanical.
Each scene constructs a different quality of presence: from charged immobility to the fragmentation of gesture, from micro-movement to the dissolution of form. Borrel’s music—electroacoustic, layered, organic—does not accompany the body but becomes its sonic extension, creating a space where sound and movement intertwine.
The performance straddles the boundary between butoh dance, sound art, and living installation. The audience is invited to perceive the body as a resonant instrument, capable of materializing the invisible frequencies of sound and translating the vibrations of the air into images.
Presented at the En Chair Et En Son festival in Ivry-sur-Seine (Paris) in 2025, a festival dedicated to the relationships between body, sound, and matter, Four Scenes From Laughing Tonalities is an example of how Veronica’s performative research is nourished by interdisciplinary collaborations, opening up to hybrid languages where dance, electronic music, and sound art merge.
